Lebanon's Aoun will not hold a call with Israel's Netanyahu in the near future: officials

Lebanon's president rebuffs US-brokered call with Israeli PM, underscoring deep diplomatic rift and regional tensions. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Lebanon's Aoun will not hold a call with Israel's Netanyahu in the near future: officials

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Lebanese President Michel Aoun has definitively refused to hold a telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, three senior Lebanese officials stated on Thursday, directly contradicting an announcement from the White House. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Aoun will not engage in any direct communication with the Israeli leader in the near future. This refusal came hours after US President Donald Trump told reporters that the leaders of the two nations, which have been in a formal state of war for decades, were scheduled to speak. The rebuff was formally communicated to the United States government prior to a scheduled call between President Aoun and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday. Two of the officials specified that the Lebanese embassy in Washington delivered the message, making Lebanon's position clear before the Aoun-Pompeo conversation began. This sequence of events highlights a significant diplomatic disconnect, with the US appearing to announce a dialogue that one party had already firmly rejected. The move places the Trump administration's Middle East diplomacy, which has recently focused on normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states, under a harsh spotlight. Lebanon and Israel have no diplomatic relations and are technically still at war, with a long history of conflict including the 2006 war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The land and maritime border between the two countries remains a persistent flashpoint, with ongoing disputes over offshore energy resources in the Mediterranean Sea. Direct talks between national leaders would represent a seismic shift in regional politics, one that the Lebanese government, a fragile coalition including Hezbollah, is politically unable to make without triggering a domestic crisis. President Aoun's refusal is rooted in a longstanding Lebanese policy of rejecting normalization with Israel before a comprehensive peace agreement is reached, a stance that enjoys broad consensus across the country's political spectrum. For the Lebanese state, any direct high-level contact would be seen as legitimizing...

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